knack

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of KNACK

a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end <she's tried every knack in Cupid's book to get her guy to marry her>

Synonyms artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, wile

Related Words bluff, end run, feint; cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery; fraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindle; blind, front, smoke screen

a special and usually inborn ability <a jazz musician with an incredible knack for improvisation>

Synonyms aptitude, bent, endowment, faculty, flair, genius, gift, head, knack

Near Antonyms disability, handicap, inability, incapacity; shortcoming, weakness

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